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Details of New Mira Type Variable MisV1444's Discovery     November 22, 2011 Yoshida, S.; Nakashima, Y.; Arai, A.; Sato, H.; Suzuki, M.; Akawaza, H.; Fidrich, R. On April 9, 2011, Seiichi Yoshida, MISAO Project, discovered a new variable star MisV1444 from the survey images at Oku Observatory operated by Youichirou Nakashima, Setouchi, Okayama, Japan, taken on April 5. http://www.aerith.net/misao/data/misv.cgi?1444 MisV1444 was bright as 13.1 mag on April 5, 2011. However, it was fainter than 15 mag on any older survey images of the MISAO Project on 7 days from 2001 to 2008. On the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (POSS2/UKSTU) images, it is not so bright on infrared plate. It looks brighter on the blue plate than infrared plate. Therefore, it does not seem to be an ordinary red variable. Digitized Sky Survey plates The Digitized Sky Surveys were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope. The plates were processed into the present compressed digital form with the permission of these institutions. The National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Atlas (POSS-I) was made by the California Institute of Technology with grants from the National Geographic Society. The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation. The Oschin Schmidt Telescope is operated by the California Institute of Technology and Palomar Observatory. The UK Schmidt Telescope was operated by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, with funding from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (later the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council), until 1988 June, and thereafter by the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The blue plates of the southern Sky Atlas and its Equatorial Extension (together known as the SERC-J), as well as the Equatorial Red (ER), and the Second Epoch [red] Survey (SES) were all taken with the UK Schmidt. The magnitude of MisV1444 measured from the Digitized Sky Survey images are as follows. Date Band Magnitude 1951 July 11 B 20.7 1951 July 11 R 17.8 1990 July 20 B 17.5 1993 July 25 R 16.7 1996 July 17 I 15.6 Robert Fidrich reported that ASAS-3 also has some positive observations of MisV1444. It was recorded bright as 11 mag only once, but faint around 14-16 mag all other time. 2450000+ 2758.86401 11.008 11.309 11.433 11.485 11.493 2909.50623 14.924 15.071 15.184 15.163 14.908 3116.87994 14.363 14.290 14.355 14.592 14.676 3127.86483 14.071 14.290 14.380 14.553 14.457 3146.78067 14.433 14.426 14.653 15.184 15.972 3576.57509 14.435 14.463 14.475 14.533 14.466 3585.54490 14.534 14.517 14.624 14.772 14.917 4966.79779 14.013 14.268 14.587 15.146 16.349 Hidetaka Sato and Masayuki Suzuki obtained multi band photometry, and MisV1444 was revealed to be red. Observer Ic Rc V B Hidetaka Sato 13.73 +- 0.05 15.13 +- 0.01 17.23 +- 0.07 Masayuki Suzuki 12.3 13.9 15.5 <13.4 Hidehiko Akazawa obtained time series photometry on April 9 and 10, but no variation in a short time was detected. Time series photometry by Hidehiko Akazawa (April 9) Time series photometry by Hidehiko Akazawa (April 10) Akira Arai, Kyoto Sangyo Univ., obtained optical spectra of MisV1444 on April 10 using 1.3m Araki-telescope at Koyama Astronomical Observatory. Spectra of the object show TiO band features clearly on a red continuum light. The results suggest that MisV1444 might be a Mira variable star. http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~kao/blog/index.php/view/82 Spectra of MisV1444 by Akira Arai The data of the Digitized Sky Survey does not seem to suggest an ordinary Mira type variable. Probably, that is because the POSS2 Blue plate was taken around the maximum, and the POSS2 Infrared plate was taken around the minimum.